Anchorage Airport Memories

Delaney Park Airstrip, Merrill Field, Anchorage International Airport and Lake Hood. Anchorage aviation history

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Delaney Park Airstrip, 1924

The oldest park in the city of Anchorage wasn’t always a park.

It first began as a fire break. It was also a golf course.

Then in 1924, the citizens of Anchorage cleared the land and it became a 300 foot by 2000 foot landing field for aviation pioneer, Noel Wien.

Wien’s first flight took place on June 4, 1924. And by the end of t…

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